冗

Meaning

冗 centers on excess beyond what is needed: something superfluous, redundant, or useless. It describes things that are unnecessary or add no value.

• 冗談じょうだん
  N3

  joke; jest; funny story

• 冗長じょうちょう

  tedious; verbose; wordy; lengthy; longwinded; prolix

• フル冗長フルじょうちょう

  fully redundant

• 冗じょう

  waste; uselessness; redundance

• 冗句じょうく

  redundant phrase

• 冗員じょういん

  supernumerary; superfluous staff; excess personnel

• 冗多じょうた

  superabundance

• 冗官じょうかん

  supernumerary official

• 冗文じょうぶん

  redundancy

• 冗漫じょうまん

  verbosity

• 冗物じょうぶつ

  redundancy; superfluity

• 冗用じょうよう

  unnecessary work; unnecessary expense

• 冗筆じょうひつ

  worthless painting and writing

• 冗言じょうげん

  chatter; useless words

• 冗語じょうご

  verbiage; wordiness; tautology; blabber; chatter; unnecessary talk

• 冗談が過ぎるじょうだんがすぎる

  to carry a joke too far

• 冗談じゃないじょうだんじゃない

  it's no joke; gimme a break!

• 冗談に紛らすじょうだんにまぎらす

  to pass (something) off as a joke

• 冗談めかしてじょうだんめかして

  jokingly; in the form of a joke

• 冗談めかすじょうだんめかす

  to treat as a joke; to do jokingly

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